Beompae (Korean: 범패; Hanja: 梵唄) is a Korean genre of Buddhist chants and songs,[1] and is a traditional Korean song category.
Other such examples include gagok and pansori).
[2] There are three kinds of beompae: Beompae developed since the Three Kingdoms period, when Buddhism enjoyed official patronage as Korea's dominant religion.
It declined during the Joseon Dynasty, when Confucianism was promoted, and during the Japanese era, when Korea's traditional Buddhist culture was repressed.
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